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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on June 24, 2021, 10:40:39 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (June 19 - 25, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(14 new postings, 11 classic postings):
For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:
1. Advice and Dissent: “Getting our Philippine history right after 500 years” - Part 13 (June 24, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8404.0)
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2. Students’ Sounding Board: “Is the multiple use of the first-person ‘I’ necessarily a redundancy?” (June 22, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=907.0)
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3. You Asked Me This Question: “How do ‘I hope’ and ‘hopefully’ differ and is the latter acceptable usage?” (June 23, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=501.0)
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4. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Shakespeare wasn’t just a literary giant but also a hard-headed businessman” (June 22, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5750.0)
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5. Getting To Know English Better: “Two often interchangeable forms of the English future tense” (June 22, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7600.0)
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6. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “The Roman Empire was built on infrastructure awaiting a pandemic—historian” (June 20, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8235.0)
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7. Language Humor at its Finest “29 more great palindromes for the road” (June 22, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=930.0)
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8. Notable Works by Our Very Own Retrospective: “It’s time for the Filipino to make himself truly globally competitive” (June 19, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=3161.0)
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9. You Asked Me This Question: “When to use full infinitives, bare infinitives, or gerunds - 1” (June 19, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7984.0)
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10. Your Thoughts Exactly Retrospective: Angel Casillan's “A Prayer to St. Jude” (June 19, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1210.0)
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11. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Choosing a CEO for Philippines Inc. is actually a no-brainer” (June 19, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=500.0)
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12. The Forum Lounge: “A Rizal retrospective on his 160th birth anniversary” (June 19, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7983.0)
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13. Readings in Language Retrospective: “A recovered ancient manuscript changes the course of human thought” (June 18, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1821.0)
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14. You Asked Me This Question: “Can the article ‘the’ be dropped if it refers to a specific noun?” (June 18, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=577.0)
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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (11 postings):
1. Advice and Dissent: “New history book asserts that the lost island of Mazaua is the true site of the first Holy Mass in the Philippines” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8315.0)
(Originally posted January 8, 2021)
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2. Advice and Dissent: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7758.0)
(Originally posted November 10, 2018)
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3. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=140.0)
(Originally posted June 19, 2009)
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4. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6768.0)
(Originally posted January 22, 2017)
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5. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6738.0)
(Originally posted circa 2002 Reposted December 16, 2016)
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6. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=535.0)
(Originally posted February 10, 2010 Reposted February 1, 2014)
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7. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=506.0)
(Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)
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8. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6761.0)
(Reposted January 18, 2017)
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9. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6628.0)
(Posted July 11, 2016)
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10. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6746.0)
(Posted December 30, 2016)
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11. “Indignities in American minor” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6721.0)
(Posted October 27, 2016)
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